Hyundai Genesis Coupe Review - Photos (2 of 10)

Aww flogmother knows hyundai is going to trounce veedud in the next few years. Schreyers touch, a few tweaks to the steering… boom. Veedud has nothing left over hyundai and a whole lot of ground to catch up on with their flaky drivelines and electrics. No wonder your nervous.

Golfmother

GEE grave robber you a total convert to wobbly handling hundi’s , at least the old falcoon steers straight .

Badge knobs will buy it ,who like to buy on price, but its built down to a price , then again so is the falcoon .

Robin_Graves

Might get a g6e turbo when the next model is released. You are about as transparent as glad wrap, hyundai has your knickers in a twist and rightly so. Better get used to being overtaken by another badge in your underpowered, overweight and unreliable lemon.

Golfmother

That will be a bad investment grave robber , last off down the drain , gas guzzler with no future , man those yanks mis-read the market big time .

Hung Low

What I meant is they should have had this here instead of a Veloster. I don’t have a Commodore as a daily driver Smithers.

horifock ..hong low jung ju

what the Fxxx are you mumbling you racist? you are the heir of the convict.. stick with your drummer

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This obviously needs a lot of work. Aside from what you mentioned, lets look at price. In the US it is a direct competitor to the 86, price wise. If it is to come here it MUST stay with that, say 30K drive away with the 4, or 32K with the 6. Secondly, the design is obviously in need of work. Next one they need to raise the roof a bit for westerners, lose the weird quarter windows which just look rubbish with that dip breaking the line of the car, and they need to add a hatch. Fast backs like this have bugger all versatility with their tiny boot openings.

With a clean Schreyer design, and those changes and the V6, I would be a contender.

F1orce

In person it looks much better..

idlebrain

Do you even know where the price of GTI start from in US? According to your insist, 2 door GTI will have to start from below 30k drive away and BMW 320i from 40k drive away. Also, camaro v6 will have to start from 30k drive away…. It will never happen

Mate, if you don’t have enough money, just get Mazda 3 or focus. Buying a car is just pure expense rather than investment. All car companies are here to make money, not to donate.

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I take it you are referring to me. Firstly the cars most of us are talking about owning here are not investments. Any car is a money pit. Secondly, you didn’t read my post very well. I was referring to the Toyota 86, which is a direct competitor to the Hyundai. Having read and watched tests of both cars from US publications I’m quite aware of what it’s value is over there, In fact I think you’ll find that the Hyundai is within a thousand dollars of the 86. The pricing is quite reasonable (maybe even a little generous) for what it is, especially in today’s climate.

The pricing I mention is also based around them having a chance at selling some. Of course Hyundai could take the approach of over charging and having them sit on the lot for twelve or eighteen months while they wait for a sucker to come along. Thirdly, a Golf GTI isn’t a comparable car for the Genesis Coupe. They are in different markets doing different things, and I didn’t mention a Golf.You are quite right though, those cars you mentioned should be priced like that in this country, but unfortunately, the rise of the dollar has only seen an increase in profit margins, as cars have become cheaper to import, but prices have gone up.

Sturmgewehr

Costs less than a GT86/FRS in USA but will cost $10K more than the GT86 here? What gives hyundai?

204KW/1525kg Genesis, 0-100kmh in fraction under 7 secs? So that gives it a identical 0-100kmh time to the Falcoone Ecoboost – except Falcoone does it with 35KW less that has to haul a extra 150kgs.
Sounds like another exaggerated output from Hyundai.

Gasman

The Ford Falcon EcoBoost recorded 0 to 100 in 9 seconds in a Drive COTY testing last year. In a separate test, using Premium unleaded, it achieved 6.9 secs. Using regular unleaded, 7.5 seconds.

In Car and Driver, and Road & Track, the Genesis coupe recorded 5.9 and 6.2 seconds respectively. Motor Trend 5.7 secs. (Add a few more clicks because of 60mph= 96km/hr).
Average seems to be 6.5 to 7.0 seconds however, for the manual transmission.

To state the bleeding obvious, different testing environments equals different recorded times, just like they are for fuel consumption figures.

As a comparison, the Genesis 3.8 V6 recorded an average of mid 5 to under 6 seconds.

But all that doesn’t matter, when you’ve got a bias towards Hyundai.

Ab

Dont know where the 0-100 time of 9 seconds came from for the Ecoboost… but its obviously a misprint. It easily achieves mid 7’s everytime.

Al Tungupon

I remember the first-generation Coupe/Tiburon as a rather good-looking car, then was suddenly succeeded by an utterly ugly update. So I wouldn’t really count on the successor of the Genesis as an evolution, though I do hope that Hyundai are on their right minds when they finally bring the new car here.

Maximark2601

There is no way I buy this car over the 86 , even for the same price. It’s still a long way before Hyundai could build a sport car to compete again other brands.

Don Quay

Those power and torque figures raise a question. Are they real kW’s and Nm’s or are they Hyundai kW’s and Nm’s? Because Hyundai seem to have different measurements from everybody else. I have yet to see an independent test where the performance matched the claimed outputs. The same with the fuel economy, as we have seen. What gives here?

While I think the coupe would be a much more likely car to be sold here than the sedan and the current one actually looks OK, it seems that a lot more work needs to be done to the fundamentals to make it comparable to the other cars in this market.

Golfmother

Spot on Don , the yanks are looking closly at the fudgy figures , no wonder the way korean society operates with so much corruption right up at the top of political circles .

Slumguard’s old kia might be slower than he thinks and sucks down more juice than he thought , wobble wobble down the road .

Lindsay

Impeccable logic there

Declan Collins

Give the FT86 a turbo 4 banger to compete and they wont sell a single one of these.

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I’m afraid I have to agree, but the Scion is outselling this in the US with out a turbo. What’s not being taken into account are the Sports coupe hatches like the Astra GTC, better looking better built, so what its FWD. When it comes down to dollars an ability, this will come up short.

web tasarim

I’m afraid I have to agree, but the Scion is outselling this in the US
with out a turbo. What’s not being taken into account are the Sports
coupe hatches like the Astra GTC, better looking better built, so what
its FWD. When it comes down to dollars an ability, this will come up
short. Perfect car.

I have driven GTI VW & Genesia Coupe and I would easily choose this over the GTI

It’s better in everyway

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The two aren’t comparable. Each has a different job and purpose in life. You could just as easily compare it to a Falcon Ute or the new Commodore, would have as much relevance.

New

You clearly work for Hyundai, or are Korean.

New

What a foul looking car…. at the end of the day the price is fair as your buying a piece of rubbish from Korea. KOREA people. How it gets 3.5 stars is a miracle; yet comparing this to a GTI is nonsense…. has the journalist ran out of ideas or been asked to market and brand this in line with a European car… it’s a piece of Korean rubbish.